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What can early music have to offer to the culture of music performances at large that the latter does not already have? Quite a lot, as Vancouver-based choir conductor Kari Turunen and versatile soprano Tuuli Lindeberg discover when talking about performing early music, its special nature and its interfaces.

Folk musician, multidisciplinary improviser and educator Outi Pulkkinen and pianist-composer Kari Ikonen discuss improvisation, its limits and its potential. Both base their work on improvisation, and here they share their thoughts on what good improvisation is, why it is an attractive concept and how you can dispel your fear of failure with it.

Ano Sirppiniemi (Senior Advisor, Technology and Foresight at the Finnish performance rights organization Teosto) and Ville Hytönen (Chair of the Union of Finnish Writers) met and talked about the opportunities offered and threats posed by artificial intelligence in the spheres of music and literature. Sirppiniemi is involved in AI adoption at Teosto, as well as evaluating the impact of AI on music authors, publishers, and the music industry as a whole, and Hytönen has been actively involved with a similar evaluation in the field of literature. What common topics and concerns do these two fields share, and in what ways do they diverge?

How similar are the fields of music and sport? Violinist Pekka Kuusisto and snowboarder Enni Rukajärvi discuss performance, art, competition and overcoming oneself. This article is part of a series that has previously featured composers Kaija Saariaho and Olli Virtaperko discussing composition, and pianist Kirill Kozlovski and runner Topi Raitanen discussing competition.